Cypress.io vs. Protractor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cypress.io
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Cypress (or Cypress.io, also the name of the company in Atlanta that develops the tool) is a testing tool with the capability to run tests across multiple browsers, that aims to make setting up, writing, running and debugging tests easy.N/A
Protractor
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Protractor is an end to end test framework for Angular apps.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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BrowserStack
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Selenium
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
Cypress.ioProtractor
Likelihood to Recommend
Cypress.io Inc
Everything web-based should be testable. Even our highly dynamic content-providing web application works well. Hopefully, it will get a bigger user base in the future so that one can find even more support at StackOverflow or similar forums.
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Open Source
It is a strong fit for end-to-end acceptance and regression testing inside the browser.
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Pros
Cypress.io Inc
  • Cypress automatically waits for DOM elements before interacting dev, this eliminates adding explicits waits in your code.
  • Has built-in recording and debugging tool.
  • Cypress has executions faster since you can update your code in the fly.
  • Very easy to configure / setup
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Open Source
  • Async operations for browser-based validation tests. This kind of feature is a must-have for building tests to scale.
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Cons
Cypress.io Inc
  • There are a lot of plugins but several of them have many errors. So Cypress.io should work integrating more features so that people should not rely on these plugins. For example, many people use cypress-cucumber-preprocessor and Cypress.io can start by integrating Gherkin support by default so that reliance in plugins are decreased.
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Open Source
  • It would be great to see the Protractor API implemented successfully inside a non-Angular web application.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cypress.io Inc
Highly satisfied and [a] big fan.
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Open Source
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Alternatives Considered
Cypress.io Inc
Execution speed and interactive debugging tool is very easy. you can make changes in the fly and test will run automatically, thus saving more time debugging your code. Can easily be intergrated to to CI/CD pipeline
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Open Source
Cypress.io is an alternative end-to-end test framework that does NOT use Selenium. Since I've only evaluated this tool as a possible solution, my estimation of its performance against Protractor is incomplete. However, if you and your team are looking for automation solutions outside of the Selenium scope, then Cypress.io may be a good fit given the problems you're trying to solve.
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Return on Investment
Cypress.io Inc
  • Flaky tests can be caught easily
  • Regration testing of application with Cypress.io helps to maintain quality of the software product.
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Open Source
  • Increased the number of reliable end to end tests inside my test suites.
  • Decreased the number and frequency of false-positive test runs/results.
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